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Here you can find the given phrases in that particular order at the bottom of the last paragraph just above the photos. When you recognize the Kanji for Dojokun you see 4 phrases all starting with the kanji for "one". That are the ones you are looking for.

Seems like you already have the links to the relevant Japanese text so no need to give you the same stuff again but I can offer you my own personal translation of what the wado ryu dojo kun here actually means.

As for the characters used to write kata names, although there are many theories nobody is really sure of the original characters for the shuri te kata (with some exceptions like the pinans). This is mainly because they were transmitted orally for a large part of their history and the pronunciations for many of them were altered as they were transmitted from Chinese to the different dialects of the Ryukyu language. This is not helped by many modern Japanese karateka who use "ateji", (characters with a similar sound to the original and a meaning that they like the sound of) some even going as far as pretending that they have the undisputed original. The German wikipedia article above unfortunately seems to suffer from this.

As for the characters used to write kata names, although there are many theories nobody is really sure of the original characters for the shuri te kata (with some exceptions like the pinans). This is mainly because they were transmitted orally for a large part of their history and the pronunciations for many of them were altered as they were transmitted from Chinese to the different dialects of the Ryukyu language. This is not helped by many modern Japanese karateka who use "ateji", (characters with a similar sound to the original and a meaning that they like the sound of) some even going as far as pretending that they have the undisputed original. The German wikipedia article above unfortunately seems to suffer from this.